About 100,000 passengers would travel to various parts of the country through special trains started by the Pakistan Railways on the occasion of Eid, state-run APP reported Sunday.

A total of 42.6 million domestic fowls in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have received compulsory inoculations following an outbreak of bird flu in the region last month, according to local authorities.

With widespread online rumor saying China will implement a blog real name system, the Internet Society of China (ISC) has clarified that so far the Ministry of Information Industry has not officially made any related policies.

A total of 42.6 million domestic fowls in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have received compulsory inoculations following an outbreak of bird flu in the region last month, according to local authorities.

Two cases of dengue disease that is transmitted through Aedes mosquitoes have been identified in Banke district, in far-west Nepal, local Nepal Samacharpatra daily reported Kathmandu on Sunday.

A new medicine named "dfmo" has been given to sleeping sickness patients in Trypanosomiasis Hospital of Viana, in Angolan capital of Luanda.

Chinese and Belgian scientists have renewed a joint project to preserve China's 2,000-year-old Terracotta Army in China's ancient capital Xi'an.

The 19th Tokyo International Film Festival started Saturday with "Flags of Our Fathers" as the opening movie in Roppongi Hills. Around 300 actors, directors and others attended the opening ceremony.

Chinese communication experts convened at a forum in Beijing on Saturday to discuss ways of improving the reporting of domestic affairs for an international audience.

Most parents think not corporal punishment but reasoning is the fairest and most effective discipline method to children, said a recent parenting survey by Singapore's Children's Society.